Attorney Profiles

Alan S. Katkin , a founder and senior partner at the New York City law firm of Angiuli Katkin and Gentile, LLP, supervises the Injury Group, including personal injury, worker’s compensation and Social Security disability claims as well as the firm’s Employment Law Group.

Under his leadership, the firm represents clients in all types of personal injury claims, including construction accidents, wrongful deaths, slip and falls, motor vehicle accidents, nursing home negligence, medical malpractice, defective products and dog bites.

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Katkin has directed one of the busiest Workers’ Compensation practices on Staten Island. His clients in this area have included claimants, carriers, self-insured employers, third party administrators, uninsured employers, health care providers and even the Special Funds Conservation Committee created by New York State Law.

Mr. Katkin is a past president of the New York Workers' Compensation Bar Association, where he promoted the rights of parties appearing before the Worker’s Compensation Board and helped formulate policy for the Association. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Society of New York Workers' Compensation Bar Association and is a member of the New York State Bar Association’s Workers' Compensation Division Committee. As a frequent lecturer on Workers' Compensation Law, he has served as a faculty member for the prestigious Practising Law Institute and has presented seminars for the Richmond County Bar Association, Lorman Education Services, the Council on Education in Management, employers, brokers, union groups, insurance companies and the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce.

In the area of Social Security disability, he represents individuals who because of illness and/or injury are unable to work and need income to provide for themselves and their families. He takes the client from the initial application through the appeal stage, if necessary.

As head of the Employment Law Group, Mr. Katkin and his team represent parties in age, race, gender, national origin, disability and religious discrimination cases as well as sexual harassment claims throughout the New York metropolitan area.

As a highly experienced litigator, he has handled thousands of hearings, trials and appeals in a wide variety of legal matters.

Mr. Katkin serves as an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York, Small Claims Part; is a past member of the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals; sits on the Board of Directors of the Richmond County Bar Association and is a member of the Staten Island Trial Lawyers Association. He is also an appointed panel member of the Surrogate Decision Making Committee of the New York State Commission on Quality of Care and Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities.

Additionally, Mr. Katkin is a member of the steering committee of the Job Service Employer Committee (JSEC) of Staten Island.

He was admitted to the New York bar in 1983 and is admitted to practice before all of the New York State Courts, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Katkin graduated from Brooklyn College in 1975 and received his Juris Doctor from the Brooklyn Law School in 1982. In the interim, he took graduate courses at New York University Dental and Medical Schools, including study of Human Anatomy and Physiology.